Artist: Tommy Dorsey Genre(s):
Jazz
Blues
Discography:
Boogie Woogie Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
Sentimental Trombone Year: 1991
Tracks: 14
Collection (Boogie Woogie) Year:
Tracks: 1
A Portrait Of CD2 Year:
Tracks: 1
A Portrait Of CD1 Year:
Tracks: 1
Though he might have been stratified second at whatsoever disposed moment to Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, or Harry James, Tommy Dorsey was overall the near popular bandleader of the swing epoch that lasted from 1935 to 1945. His unco melodic trombone playing was the touch sound of his orchestra, just he successfully straddled the hot and gratifying styles of swing with a mix of ballads and novelty songs. He provided showcases to vocalists wish Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Jo Stafford, and he employed imaginative arrangers such as Sy Oliver and Bill Finegan. He was the biggest-selling creative person in the history of RCA Victor Records, one of the major labels, until the comer of Elvis Presley, wHO was first gear granted national pic on the 1950s boob tube show he hosted with his comrade Jimmy. Dorsey was 21 months jr. than Jimmy and thence the second boy of Thomas Francis Dorsey, Sr., a music teacher and dance orchestra music director, and Theresa Langton Dorsey. Both brothers received musical instruction from their male parent. Tommy focussed on the trombone, though he likewise played trumpet, especially other in his life history. The brothers played in local groups, then formed their possess ring, Dorsey's Novelty Six, in 1920. By 1922, when they played an employment at a Baltimore amusement park and made their radiocommunication debut, they were career the mathematical group Dorsey's Wild Canaries. During the early and mid-'20s, they played in a series of bands including the Scranton Sirens, the California Ramblers, and orchestras lED by Jean Goldkette and Paul Whiteman, sometimes apart, simply commonly together. Eventually, they colonized in New York and worked as session musicians. In 1927, they began recording as the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra for OKeh Records, using pickup bands, and they commencement reached the charts with "Tease" in June 1928. In the springtime of 1929, they scored a Top Ten hit with "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)," which featured Bing Crosby on vocals. The Dorseys eventually organized a full-time band and signed to Decca Records in 1934. Hiring Bing Crosby's jr. pal Bob Crosby as their vocaliser, they scored a Top Ten hit with "I Believe in Miracles" in the recent winter of 1935, quickly followed by "Tiny Little Fingerprints" (vocal by Kay Weber) and "Night Wind" (vocal by Bob Crosby). They and then enjoyed successive number one hits with "Berceuse of Broadway" (vocal by Bob Crosby) and "Chasing Shadows" (vocal by Bob Eberly, Bob Crosby's replacing). The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra was poised to become the biggest dance orchestra in the country in the spring of 1935 and might get been remembered for launching the dangle geological era, merely at the oddment of May the brothers, whose relationship was incessantly volatile, disagreed, and Tommy left the band (which notwithstanding scored some other Top Ten hit with "Every Little Movement" that summertime). Jimmy Dorsey continued to lead the dance orchestra, which eventually was billed as Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra and went on to considerable success. But patch the Dorseys stumbled, Benny Goodman achieved national success and was dubbed "the King of Swing." Tommy Dorsey took over the remnants of the Joe Haymes ring in origination his possess orchestra in the fall of 1935. Signing to RCA Victor Records, he scored an immediate success with "On Treasure Island" (vocal by Edythe Wright), which topped the charts in December 1935, one of four-spot Dorsey records to superlative in the Top Ten in front the close of the year. Dorsey was back at number unrivaled in January 1936 with "The Music Goes Round and Round" (vocal by Edythe Wright) and topped the charts once more in February with "Alone" (vocal by Cliff Weston). "You" (vocal by Edythe Wright) gave him his third base number unrivaled in 1936, to which tin can be added ashcan School other Top Ten hits during the year. Dorsey was even more successful in 1937, a yr in which he scored 18 Top Ten hits, among them the chart-toppers "Marie" (vocal by Jack Leonard), "Lucifer Takes a Holiday" (an instrumental), "The Big Apple," "Once in a While," and "The Dipsy Doodle" (vocal by Edythe Wright). Dorsey earned his own wireless series, which ran for most troika years. His 15 Top Ten hits in 1938 included the number unrivaled "Music, Maestro, Please" (vocal by Edythe Wright), and he had another 11 Top Ten hits in 1939, among them "Our Love" (vocal by Jack Leonard), which strike number unrivaled. Notwithstanding his commercial success, Dorsey made authoritative changes in his band in previous 1939, particularly in his vocalists. Jack Leonard left the band in November, and Dorsey hired Frank Sinatra away from Harry James. Longtime female vocalizer Edythe Wright too asleep, replaced by Connie Haines, and the vocal quartet the Pied Pipers, featuring Jo Stafford, too coupled Dorsey. The success only continued with the new members. Dorsey scored ten-spot Top Ten hits in 1940, among them the chart-toppers "Indian Summer" and "All the Things You Are" (both with vocals by Leonard) as well as "I'll Never Smile Again" (with vocals by Sinatra and the Pied Pipers). For the year, he graded second behind Glenn Miller as the top recording creative person. He dropped to third base space behindhand Miller and his pal Jimmy in 1941, a year in which he scored another ten Top Ten hits, eight of them featuring Sinatra, including the number unrivaled hit "Dolores" from the photographic film
Las Vegas Nights, released in March, in which the band appeared. 1942 was a intriguing year for Dorsey. The U.S. had entered World War II in December 1941, which set up air pressure on the big bands peculiarly in footing of changing staff office and jaunt difficulties. On August 1, 1942, the American Federation of Musicians called a hit that prevented musicians from entering recording studios. Frank Sinatra left the band in September to launch a solo life history, and the Pied Pipers were gone by the end of the year. Nevertheless, Dorsey carried on, putting the band into a second motion picture,
Embark Ahoy, which opened in June, and scoring 4 Top Ten hits, which, with his other chart entries, was sufficiency to rank him one-fifth among the year's peak recording artists. He earned the same ranking in the transitional year of 1943, scorn being keep out out of the recording studios, managing another four Top Ten hits, among them "Thither Are Such Things" and "In the Blue of the Evening," chart-toppers Sinatra recorded with the band ahead his going. Meanwhile, Dorsey turned to cinema roles to keep active, coming into court in leash movies released during 1943:
Presenting Lily Mars,
DuBarry Was a Lady, and
Girl Crazy. By 1944, RCA Victor had exhausted its backlog of unissued Dorsey recordings and had to holiday resort to reissues, managing Top Ten hits with the 1938 instrumental "Boogie-woogie Woogie" and the 1940 recording "I'll Be Seeing You" with Sinatra on vocals. Dorsey remained in Hollywood, coming into court in
Great White Way Rhythm, which opened in April. The settlement of the musicians' trades union strike in the fall allowed him to return to the recording studio, and he scored 6 Top Ten hits in 1945 as a result, likewise placing an album,
Getting Sentimental, in the freshly instituted record album charts. In May, he appeared in the plastic film
Thrill of a Romance. Dorsey scored some other Top Ten record album with
Register Boat, containing songs from the Broadway musical, in February 1946. The vainglorious bands were in decline, and like some of his peers, Dorsey broke up his band in December 1946. But his All-Time Hits was in the Top Ten of the record album charts in February 1947, and in March "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" (vocal by Stuart Foster) entered the singles charts to go a Top Ten hit. Dorsey reorganised his band, and in May he played himself in a mostly fictionalized plastic film life,
The Fabulous Dorseys. Clambake Seven, an record album of euphony by Dorsey's humble mathematical group, reached the Top Ten in October 1948, the same month he appeared in the plastic film
A Song Is Born, and the undermentioned month he was back in the Top Ten of the singles charts with "Until" (vocal by Harry Prime). In the spring of 1949, he had a double-sided Top Ten hit with "The Hucklebuck" (vocal by Charlie Shavers)/"Again" (vocal by Marcy Lutes). The digest record album And the Band Sings Too was in the Top Ten in September, and Dorsey returned to the Top Ten of the record album charts with Tommy Dorsey Plays Cole Porter in April 1950. His last cinema appearance came in
Disk Jockey in September 1951. Dorsey switched to Decca Records and continued to perform with his band in the early '50s. In May 1953, Jimmy Dorsey stony-broke up his band and joined his brother's orchestra as a featured attraction; before long, the band was over again beingness billed as the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra. While playing a residency at the Statler Hilton Hotel in New York, the brothers launched a tV series,
Phase Show, as a summer replacing program in the summertime of 1954. It returned on an periodic footing during the 1954-1955 season and ran on a regular basis once a week during the 1955-1956 season. Elvis Presley appeared on the show for hexad back-to-back weeks starting in January 1956, his first base nationally air appearances. Sedated by sleeping pills following a heavy repast, Dorsey circumstantially clogged to decease at the age of 51. His brother lED his band briefly afterwards, just Jimmy Dorsey died in 1957. Nevertheless, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra continued to record and execute, and under the direction of Warren Covington it scored a last million-selling Top Ten strike in November 1958 with "Tea for Two Cha Cha." Billed as "the sentimental gentleman of swing," Tommy Dorsey successfully combined the hot and sweet aspects of drop music piece leading a band that consistently ranked among the top deuce or 3 orchestras in the U.S. from the mid-'30s to the mid-'40s, the entire swing era. His band was peopled with major nothingness instrumentalists (including Bunny Berigan, Ziggy Elman, Pee Wee Erwin, Max Kaminsky, Buddy Rich, Charlie Shavers, and Dave Tough), arrangers (including Sy Oliver and Paul Weston), and singers (including Frank Sinatra and Jo Stafford) world Health Organization went on to define popular euphony in the late '40s and former '50s. He was as well an complete trombone player whose classifiable sound dominated his ring and recordings. The majority of those recordings were made for RCA Victor, though some after work was done for Decca and Columbia, and of course there are legion airchecks, qualification for a great discography.
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